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...Epstein’s Financial Trust Company bought 263,257 shares in Apollo during its IPO....
...It was down 8 per cent at $15,257 after hitting a record high of $16,666 earlier in the day. Futures tip the FTSE 100 and the S&P 500 to open 0.2 per cent higher....
...Mr Hadland worked for SLI before moving to the £266bn investment arm of Prudential, the UK-listed insurer....
...Shares in Toshiba fell 17 per cent to ¥257 on Thursday, taking the total loss of equity value to more than 40 per cent since the Japanese company announced that it was facing a multibillion-dollar writedown...
...Gold, which is sensitive to interest rate expectations, was one-quarter of a percentage point higher on Friday at $1,257.95 an ounce, recouping nearly all of Thursday’s decline....
...The dollar index, a measure of the US currency against a basket of global peers, was flat in Asian trade today at 95.257....
...Nasdaq unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 4,952 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -12.33 (-0.88%) at 1,385 FTSE100 down -23.50 (-0.39%) at 5,929 CAC 40 up +65.61 (+1.47%) at 4,539 Dax up +117.34 (+1.16%) at 10,257...
...On Monday it reported that revenues had climbed 97 per cent in US dollar terms in the first quarter, to $108.3m, with mobile revenues rising 257 per cent....
...15,629 Nasdaq up +45.57 (+1.14%) at 4,057 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +18.57 (+1.46%) at 1,290 FTSE100 up +100.39 (+1.55%) at 6,558 CAC 40 up +70.31 (+1.71%) at 4,188 Dax up +140.26 (+1.54%) at 9,257...
...Derivative exchanges sold off, with CME Group down 3.4 per cent to $257 and IntercontinentalExchange off 2.3 per cent to $123.10, though analysts struggled to explain the moves....
...On Wednesday morning at the market open, the New York Stock Exchange saw an all-time message traffic record of 121,257 messages per second in one 30-second period, which includes orders placed, cancelled...
...Elsewhere among the mid-caps, Heritage Oil rose 5.3 per cent to 257¼p after it launched a $100m share buy-back....
...In the three months to the end of September, Edwards earned $74m (£46.6m) before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, with sales up 75 per cent to $257.3m....
...The S&P 500 index was down 0.2 per cent at 1,257.88. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average also fell 0.1 to 11,569.71, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite index was down 0.2 per cent to 2,662.98....
...Overall, per this Dow Jones story: the Fed suffered a $3.1 billion net loss on its Bears Stearns-related bailout, and a $257 million loss on its AIG efforts....
...Fannie Mae provided Olympia with more than $44m – the aggregate unpaid principal amount of 257 loans....
...High street retailer Alexon slid 6.5 per cent to 257½p after reporting a fall in first-half profits....
...Hilton, the hotels to betting shop group, moved 3.1 per cent ahead to 257¾p after Seymour Pierce said the shares had been hit unfairly by recent poor hotel figures in the US, where Hilton has little exposure...
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